Monthly Archives: August 2009

Insight: Education

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Laura

What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but text-people. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read, the text they will never forget. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, quoted in Michael … Continue reading →

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Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Laura

Last Thursday, I shared a collective dream in Becoming a Tribe of Ecclesiological Gastronauts.  The story there brought up several ideas worth pondering: table fellowship intention versus ulterior motives remembering we are Church a network of neighborhoods The idea of … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiology Wrap August 8 – August 13

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Laura

When The Thing Becomes The Thing: Jonathan Brink asks, “What happens when the very act of love becomes the religious practice that once again becomes the thing we think will earn God’s love?” The Foolishness of the Cross and Church-Planting … Continue reading →

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Insight: Christology

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Laura

This Christological concept [that Jesus is the center of all truth] signifies that the very heart of reality is personal, rational, and knowable and that all other knowledge takes on proper perspective through relationship to Christ. Michael L. Peterson, With … Continue reading →

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Becoming a Tribe of Ecclesiological Gastronauts

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Laura

Among my many diversions, two claim pride of place: food and ecclesiology. Over my lifetime, these two have synergized as I and fellow gastronautic Christ followers gathered at sundry local restaurants, sharing life and food. In my twenties, my fellow … Continue reading →

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